I wish to add to all the informal testimonials I have heard fathers and mothers share at playgrounds or over coffee about the worth of Catskill Mountain Music Together. In our own case, we have seen our daughter, who had a language delay, make exponential leaps and bounds whenever we enrolled her in one of the Catskill Mountain music classes.

Now, and with no small contribution from Music Together^®, our small one is a fully realized little linguistic preschooler, able to express in impressively complex sentences how much she loves Music Together and what it continues to bring to her: the class truly highlights her week.

I have taken class with both teachers at Catskill Mountain Music Together and both make the effort to understand the complexity of each child and to address the members of each group. At the start of each term, my child is in a new phase of learning, one which the teachers recognize, acknowledge and nurture.

I think the teachers make an effort to understand the complexity of each child and to address the members of each group, so that each class feels as if it starts off a new musical revolution for all its children.

Please count us fans for life. As will our babbling child whom we cannot get to stop talking!

Again, words cannot express our gratitude.

"The variety of music my children get exposed to at Music Together has enhanced their musical growth in so many ways. Music Together songs are integrated into our lives. Every single day, throughout the day, my 2 1/2 year old daughter will pick out a word in our conversation and sing one of her Music Together songs containing that word. She started Music Together at age 11 months, and after two years still adores it! Her baby sister started accompanying us to classes at 4 weeks of age, and now at 6 months will stop fussing if I play the "Hello Song". This is a wonderful program!"

We went on vacation and by the pool they had a band in the late morning - everyone was amazed and amused when our little boy consistently got up and danced around and clapped as soon as he heard the music playing, despite being the only one of our 18 family members to do so. I must add this also happened in the elevators which were piped with music - very sweet and funny for us all. I am glad he is so happy and comfortable musically.

I love the bells collection, and so does Ewan. He will just start singing the songs randomly while he is playing with his toys, taking a bath, or when he is "cooking" etc. He is really getting into dancing too. Tonight he added a new arm movement to his dance style! He has really taken an interest to instruments, and talks about who has a guitar in his life. Ewan was shy in class at first, but I appreciated the literature and your suggestion that this behavior might be a phase he will grow out of and then move on to a new phase.